August 1

Feasts

Feasts:
Beginning of the Dormition Fast;
Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord;
Saints:
Holy Seven Maccabees: Martyrs Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, and Marcellus, and their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar (166 B.C.);
Holy Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia: Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus (Mnesitheus), Cyriacus, Mineon (Menaeus), Catanus, and Eucleus (3rd c.);
Martyr Papas the New;
Martyr Eleazar;
Martyr Cyricus, by beheading;
Martyr Theodore, by the sword;
Martyr Polyeuctus, by being buried alive in manure;
Venerable Martyr Elessa of Kythira (375);
Saint Timothy of Proconnesus the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus (6th c.)
Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England;
Child-martyr Justin, venerated in Louvre near Paris in France (ca.290);
Saint Nemesius, a saint venerated near Lisieux in France;
Saint Leus of Viguenza, a priest whose relics were honoured in Viguenza in Italy (4th c.);
Saint Verus, Bishop of Vienne, attended the Council of Arles in 314 (ca.314);
Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop (371);
Saint Exuperius of Bayeux, first Bishop of Bayeux in France, he is honoured in Corbeil (405);
Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland (ca.490);
Saint Almedha (Eluned, Eled, Elevetha), suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecon in Wales (5th c.);
Saint Severus, a priest of noble family, famous for his charity, honoured from time immemorial in the village of St Sever de Rustan (ca.500);
Saints Friard (Friardus of Vindumitta), and Secundel (Secundellus) deacon, hermits on the Isle of Vindomitte near Nantes in Gaul (ca.577);
Virgin-Martyr Sidwell of Exeter (Sativola) (6th c.);
Saint Kenneth (Cenydd, Kined), monk of Ploumelin, a hermit who made his cell among the rocks in the Gower peninsula, Wales (6th c.);
Saint Peregrinus, a pilgrim from Ireland, on return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land settled as a hermit near Modena in Italy (643);
Saint Jonatus, a monk at Elnone in Belgium, Abbot of Marchiennes (c 643-652) and then of Elnone Abbey (c 652-659);
Saint Mary the Consoler, sister of St Anno, Bishop of Verona in Italy (8th c.);
Saint Æthelwold of Winchester (Ethelwold), Bishop of Winchester (984);
Saint Davyd Sviatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov (1097–1123);
New Hieromartyr Basil, Archbishop of Chernigov (1918);
New Hieromartyr Demetrius, Priest (1937);
Other Commemorations:
Baptism of Rus' (1 August 988);
Finding of the relics (1882) of Bishop Nestor (Zakkis) of the Aleutians and Alaska (1882);
Repose of Abbess Alexia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1940);
Uncovering of the relics (1995) of the Venerable Sophia of Suzdal (1542).